04.05.07
Marny Skora
757-864-3315, 757-344-6111
RELEASE: 07-017
ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISER WILL DISCUSS CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES
HAMPTON, Va. – "The world is facing significant environmental
challenges: shortages of clean and accessible fresh water,
degradation of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, increases in soil
erosion, changes in the chemistry of the atmosphere, declines in
fisheries, and the likelihood of significant changes in climate,"
claims Berrien Moore, co-chair of the science decadal study released
in January 2007. How much has human activity altered the global
environment?
Moore, professor and director of the Institute for the Study of Earth,
Oceans and Space at the University of New Hampshire, will speak on
"Humans and the Global Carbon Cycle: A Faustian Bargain?" on Tuesday,
April 10, at 2 p.m. in the NASA Langley Research Center Reid
Conference Center. Moore will give a similar briefing for the general
public at 7:30 p.m. at the Virginia Air & Space Center, downtown
Hampton.
Media who wish to interview Moore at a news briefing at 1:15 p.m.
Tuesday should contact Marny Skora at 864-3315 or 344-6111 (mobile)
by noon for credentials and entry to the Center.
The long-awaited study, "Earth Science and Applications from Space:
National Imperatives for the Next Decade and Beyond," was produced by
and for the Earth science community. This National Academy of
Sciences decadal survey outlines a decline over the next five years
in the number of satellite instruments to monitor Earth from space.
Space-based observations provide information for tracking severe
weather, understanding climate activity, and monitoring land use.
Moore's research focuses on global change, the carbon cycle, global
biogeochemical cycles, as well as policy issues in the area of the
global environment. He has served on several NASA advisory committees
and, in 1987, chaired the NASA Space and Earth Science Advisory
Committee.
From 1987-1992, Moore was a member of the National Research Council
(NRC) Board on Global Change and he chaired the NRC Committee on
Global Change Research from 1995-1998. That committee produced a
landmark NRC report, "Global Environmental Change: Research Pathways
for the Next Decade."
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